歉
歉 — gyeom
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
Parts that make up 歉
How 歉 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 歉 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 兼, 欠.
Japanese words with 歉
- 凶歉きょうけん poor crops; famine
Characters sharing the phonetic 兼
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “겸” in Korean.
Other hanja read “겸”
Other hanja with radical 欠
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